I can’t tell you if it is good eating because by the time I completed my pencil roughs, my colour roughs, my detailed pencil drawing and my colour study, the fruit was well on its way to becoming BEER.

One rainy night, a little tree frog hopped in my kitchen door in pursuit of some juicy insect.

9 x 12” 140lb Whatman rough paper with Holbein colours, raw sienna for the frog with a bit of purple for the shadows and the dark night background is built up with successive layers of rose, bamboo green and phthalo blue.

I was practicing painting backlit waves crashing against the rocks. This is where, in the surging tide, the half submerged rocks look unnervingly like a crocodile.

Done on 15 x 11” Lana aquarelle 140lbs rough paper with Winsor & Newton colours. This is a fine quality French made paper I bought some years ago, quite expensive but a joy to use. My amateurish washes came out brilliant, the textures beautiful, I began to have a glimpse of what might be possible if only I practice more!